By So I broke down this year and decided to do it for the first time. I am a Nanowrimoer! So this means that I am participating in the National Novel Writer Month (or Nanowrimo for short, or Nano for those of us in it and too busy to do anything but write.) For the whole month of November, I will attempt to produce 50,000 words. I little bit of a strech for me who feels comfortable doing about 1000 words a day (a scene a day really for me).
My writing stuff!
I had a bit of a writing slump this summer, mostly being burnt out from the American Title and also having the kids full time for school holiday. The idea of writing the sequel to Ancient Whispers just paralized me with fear (let’s be honest!).
But I wrote a Steampunk short story (which I plan to turn into a novel) and it was so much fun that I actually did find my groove again.
I still can’t believe that I had writer’s block, but yes, indeed I did. But all is fine now thanks to Margie Lawson awesome class notes “Defeat Self-Defeating Behaviours”.
It is so amazing to be back into writing again. I had missed it so much. That constant daydreaming, seing new scenes in my head, intense feeling emerging again (nearly cried today in my way home from a great scene that played in my mind… not kidding!), there is nothing like it for me.
So I am bracing the Nano. Mostly because this seems to be a good time for me before (hopefully) starting school again and I can’t wait to re-enter the world from Ancient Whispers with the sequel: Ancient Secrets. Meet my sorcerers again, feel the power, the rituals.
I’m psyched. I have my notebooks, my music (NIN of course!), my Donald Mass book to help with these pesky plot points and my laptop to log all these words onto the Nano website (…and of course, coffee! can’t do anything without coffee. Right!)
Wish my luck. I’m ready! I’m mcbourque on the Nano website. Buddy me 
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Here’s wishing you luck MC! I’m doing Nano too. I did it in 2007 and made it to 30000 words and I didn’t do it last year, but so far this year I’m off to a good start with 3600 words written yesterday! you can do it! Look how fast you wrote a 100000 word rough draft for whispers. only a couple months, you can totally do 50000 in a month. Mine’s an UF romance. My first ever and I’m actually excited about!
November 2nd, 2009
Kayla, I’m very excited about your UF. It will be great! I know you can do it and hey 30,000 words in a month is great anyway, right
November 2nd, 2009
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